Opakidabar wrote:Molotov wrote:It is interesting how many ancient and modern religions have an element of the trinity or a triune deity of some kind. Hinduism has the Trimurti, the ancient Zoroastrians had the evil god, the good god, and chaos - who were all the same being. It crops up quite often through history, as does the use of three or multiples of three (Odin's nine days, nine spells, the three roots of the World Tree that covered nine worlds). Although this may be because the Norse thought in multiples of three, I have no idea, I've never looked into it.
Latvian mythology and tales features concept of "Trejdeviņi" ("threenine", in a way - over threenine seas and threenine hills, meaning "faraway land") which was once explained by one of our folk scientist in a manner that put me in shock.
"trejdevini" = 9*9*9 = 729, which is ~ 365 days and 365 nights. So over threenine lands means a distance that can be done in a year.
So either coincidence or my ancestors did some maths
I see why you were shocked, that's really interesting. Thanks for telling me. Who are the old gods of Latvia?
Was it the ancient Lithuanians who had a European empire which stretched to the Mediterranean? Were the ancient Latvians anything to do with that, or affected by it? It might explain how they would know and care about the distance one might travel in a year. I might be confused with something someone once told me regarding Lithuania and the Holy Roman Empire, which would be mediaeval, in which case I'm totally off the mark.
, well to be honest Brittish Queen is prime descendant of a huge number of royal European families). However their aristocracy and leaders came from small Lithuanian tribes that were heavily outnumbered by their subjects. 
But gradually they became more and more Polish.
